Of course, had we used the more normal if-clause to express this conditional idea, the contracted negative form would have been the norm: If only it hadn't rained last Saturday, we would've had a ...

As a result, using ‘have’ in place of had in that particular conditional clause would be totally wrong just as the choice of the tense in the main cause it is introducing should be ...

Any is normally used with plural and uncountable nouns in questions, negative and conditional sentences ... With this usage, in these examples, we would normally require a/an before a singular ...

In an aggravated assault case, the British Columbia Court of Appeal replaced the custodial sentence with a conditional sentence upon ruling the Gladue principles required it to sentence the Indigenous ...